---The Official *2023* Topps Home Run Challenge Thread---

[Juanny Chico]

Originally Posted by dale

I just today got my tracking number for my June winners (in two different emails.) My May winners email came 5 days after actually receiving the cards, so that's progress. Hopefully the rest of you guys got your emails too, including May if you didn't get them yet.

yes indeed, i too, finally received a tracking email. Although it was the generic Pitney bowes no-reply email with no identification about which order is coming. I guess I'm leaning towards it being a June order if that's what you received today too.

My May Winners are still sitting on a desk somewhere I suppose. Ill report back on Friday with results

[dale]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

yes indeed, i too, finally received a tracking email. Although it was the generic Pitney bowes no-reply email with no identification about which order is coming. I guess I'm leaning towards it being a June order if that's what you received today too.

My May Winners are still sitting on a desk somewhere I suppose. Ill report back on Friday with results

The first email I got was the Pitney Bowes one; the second came about six hours later with the list of June winners being mailed.

[Juanny Chico]

My May Winners showed up today and I was able to gather the last few Double Down Print runs that was still needed. April and May numbers are now complete. We're still waiting for several June print runs


I had about 150+ winners come only for May. Half a year ago I figured it would be a good idea to front load my codes for the first few months of the season. I don't regret it but I was not able to sustain the grind. I did not win the majority of August/September cards to come.

[Bunny Hop]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

My May Winners showed up today

Amazing.

[Juanny Chico]

Its October 25. Per the Official Rules- Today is the day the Grand Prize Winner is picked to attend the HR Derby in 2024
Good Luck!

[Juanny Chico]

Small Update:
I just got my September order email from Topps. My order shows up in "My Orders" tab, but its status is showing "Canceled". Anyone else seeing the same thing for their September winner order?

Thats all 6 months of orders for this year, but as it is today- were still waiting on shipments to finish some June orders and still waiting on all of July-Sept shipments.

There's been no additional new winners to input- so the chart above is still current.

[Braves420]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

Small Update:
I just got my September order email from Topps. My order shows up in "My Orders" tab, but its status is showing "Canceled". Anyone else seeing the same thing for their September winner order?

Thats all 6 months of orders for this year, but as it is today- were still waiting on shipments to finish some June orders and still waiting on all of July-Sept shipments.

There's been no additional new winners to input- so the chart above is still current.

Yeah, cancelled state as well

[dale]

My September status shows as "Processing" but maybe they already fixed it. The individual cards do show as "Winner" on the entries page.
At least the email advanced a year. Last month's came from their German address and said 2021, this one says 2022 and came from America.

[dabbadoo]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

Small Update:
I just got my September order email from Topps. My order shows up in "My Orders" tab, but its status is showing "Canceled". Anyone else seeing the same thing for their September winner order?

Thats all 6 months of orders for this year, but as it is today- were still waiting on shipments to finish some June orders and still waiting on all of July-Sept shipments.

There's been no additional new winners to input- so the chart above is still current.

my lone September one shows Processing

[Juanny Chico]

My complete June order came today. I was able to fill in the needed print runs for June. More low #s for 2023. Excited to see July. Some of the red color matches will look great. Curious to see if Print Runs start to rise as they typically do...

[Strofan]

I'm seeing still no order shipment on July or August winners. NO order shipment for Derby Duel winner as well.

Same for everybody else?

[dale]

Originally Posted by Strofan

I'm seeing still no order shipment on July or August winners. NO order shipment for Derby Duel winner as well.

Same for everybody else?

Same for me, although I picked Adolis Garcia with my only Derby Duel card. Only a few July winners have surfaced so far.

[JoinerCP]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

My complete June order came today. I was able to fill in the needed print runs for June. More low #s for 2023. Excited to see July. Some of the red color matches will look great. Curious to see if Print Runs start to rise as they typically do...

Amazing number of winners you have. Roughly speaking, how much did you rip to secure that many winners?

[Juanny Chico]

Originally Posted by JoinerCP

Amazing number of winners you have. Roughly speaking, how much did you rip to secure that many winners?

Thank you. I didn't rip many packs this year, maybe pulled less than 5 codes myself. eBay, Sportlots, etc helped with the other 3000+ codes

[TheGZA]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

My May Winners showed up today and I was able to gather the last few Double Down Print runs that was still needed.

Oh my sweet fancy Moses, that is remarkable

[TheGZA]

Probably not even worth mentioning after seeing the amazing hauls above but my Schwarber double down /176 just arrived. Yay!

[JoinerCP]

Originally Posted by TheGZA

Probably not even worth mentioning after seeing the amazing hauls above but my Schwarber double down /176 just arrived. Yay!

What makes the double down visually unique to the other cards? We're still waiting on our first winner to arrive.

Nevermind! I just looked at the pics above a little more carefully and could see where the double down/sparkle effect is added for that extra flair.

[dabbadoo]

Seeing some red Julys on ebay. looks awesome

[dale]

Originally Posted by dabbadoo

Seeing some red Julys on ebay. looks awesome

I saw an August there too, purple.

[stangy24]

Got my July Vlad Jr. Double Down Winner #'d 17/39 today. It's FS/FT if anyone's interested.

[Gthompson1978]

Got shipping notification for Mookie for August

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Juanny Chico

My complete June order came today. I was able to fill in the needed print runs for June. More low #s for 2023. Excited to see July. Some of the red color matches will look great. Curious to see if Print Runs start to rise as they typically do...

You may want to add the Winner card numbers to your spreadsheet since they don't match up to the HRC card numbers.

[BoSoxFan1999]

Originally Posted by dabbadoo

Seeing some red Julys on ebay. looks awesome

lmao, I'm still waiting for 2 HRC cards from July I hit.

[dale]

Originally Posted by BoSoxFan1999

lmao, I'm still waiting for 2 HRC cards from July I hit.

Same here. I only had 4 winners in July; all have hit ebay and all have astronomical print runs.

[Juanny Chico]

Figure this is a good time to post an update. Many July/August cards still to come. Looks like were waiting well into the new year to finish this 2023 set.




FYI- there was no acknowledgement of Home Run Challenge cards returning for 2024. This doesn't mean they aren't returning. Usually, we only see our first glimpse of these returning when the checklist comes out.